Posts filed under 'FJ Issue 5'
I profiled the viola da gamba player Jordi Savall in issue 5 who talked about playing the music of the 17th century French composers Marin Marais and Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe in the movie Tous les matin du monde. Savall spoke about the intense study needed to recreate the styles of these masters for the film and the imaginative leap he had to make in order to perform this music in an authentic style. This story about his recent travails on a plane trip to Scotland show that it’s probably getting harder and harder to put himself in a Sainte-Colombe state of mind. I mean, I bet that Marin Marais never had to deal with a flight attendant trying to lock his gamba in the toilet.-MJS
August 28th, 2007
Andy Volk wrote about Bill Tapia and reviewed Clapton’s Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument and Guitar: An American Life in our fifth issue. It turns out he’s also a filmmaker and he recently completed filming mandolinist John McGann for an instructional DVD. It’s titled, reasonably enough, John McGann’s Rhythm Mandolin: From Bluegrass to Celtic to Swing. I got a chance to see and it’s excellent. Even if Andy weren’t one of my writers I would recommend it for mandolin players who want to hone their rhythm chops. -MJS
April 7th, 2007
In our fifth issue, we were pleased to publish a great article about Taj Mahal by John Kruth. It turns out John has been quite busy lately. He just released a new CD called Eva Destruction and if that wasn’t enough his biography of Townes Van Zandt has just been published. Here’s a good interview with John where he talks about his multi-faceted career.-MJS
April 5th, 2007
Tony Rice, who graces the cover of out 5th issue, has hurt his back and hasn’t been able to play his last few dates with Peter Rowan. I’ve heard he has played a date or two in the last couple of days, so I hope that means he’s on the mend. While we’re waiting to hear how he’s doing, you should check out this amazing clip of him playing “Shenandoah” from the DVD Bluegrass Journey.-MJS
March 23rd, 2007
In issue 5, Andy Volk wrote a good piece about ukulele legend Bill Tapia, who is still performing at the age of 99. Here’s a clip of Tapia from 2004 with Lyle Ritz, another legendary ukulele player who is still a young whippersnapper in his 70s.-MJS
March 14th, 2007
